The Texas agent, who makes a speciality of new development and routinely tops trade lists, bought greater than 6,000 houses final yr, setting a brand new report.
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Ben Caballero, a Texas agent who has persistently set information and landed atop trade rating lists, has set a brand new report for doing essentially the most quantity for a single agent in a single yr.
Ben Caballero
In complete, Caballero bought 6,178 houses final yr, representing greater than $3 billion in quantity, in keeping with a press release. That quantity determine ought to give Caballero the trade crown for 2022 and blows away the report he beforehand set in 2020 when he did $2.46 billion in quantity.
In 2021, Caballero did almost $2 billion in quantity and handily took the highest spot on the distinguished Actual Developments 1000 record for brokers who do essentially the most quantity.
Caballero has the truth is topped the Actual Developments 1000 record yearly since 2013, typically far outpacing the second-place finisher. In 2015, Caballero was the primary agent to do greater than $1 billion in quantity in a single yr, in keeping with the assertion. He then went on to do greater than $2 billion in quantity in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
As well as, he set a Guinness World File for promoting essentially the most houses in a single yr in 2016 after dealing with 3,556 house gross sales, the assertion additionally notes. He went on to interrupt that report a number of instances, finally promoting 6,438 houses in 2020.
Caballero and his Texas-based firm HomesUSA.com have relationships with greater than 60 new house builders within the Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio metro areas.
Caballero stated that 2022 started slowly for him as a result of the homebuilders he works with had been pressured to promote houses from wait lists, the assertion notes. Nevertheless, because the yr progressed and the market softened within the face of upper mortgage charges, demand for brand new builds elevated — benefiting Caballero’s enterprise.
“The most effective new house market within the U.S. is Texas and continues to be Texas,” Caballero concluded. “So, changing into a Texan is arguably the perfect enterprise determination I ever made.”
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